The MightyBoy - is it restoration or Hotrodding?

Have also seen induction heating used for treating metals. The ones I see a bit look like an old heater coil but without touching the metal heats it up quickly to a bright yellow

The best heat treating is still done with an oven, bring metal to temperature at a chosen speed and then kept at that temp to soak, quench with the appropriate solution (oil, water, cyanide solution etc) and then reheated to temper to give the correct hardness combined with flexability for the purpose it is designed for'
gumpy

Interesting comments on treating steel components as far as heating them and then bringing them back to original hardness and tempering.
Had a discussion with old mate yesterday, 85 th birthday, spoke of how every town no matter how small, had at least one old style blacksmith, not just for shoeing horses.
When making a few enquiries, seems like sadly yet another skill set has gone the way of button up boots for women!
This mate told me how him and his father used to get just about anything made or remade by the local smithy.
He was referring mainly to having tools made out of scrap steel and then treated.
Must surely have been an experience to watch some of these blokes work, old mate used to enjoy simply winding up the hand cranked bellows on the forge.
Like I said, sadly a true art form gone forever
Dave64

Thank you Gents for the information.

I had planned on using two old Ford or Holden axles to have the machining done on as they would be the right grade of steel, but then I thought the machine shop will know 500 times what I know about doing this so leave it to them.

This may be the only work on the car I wont have done.

I met a guy yesterday that had custom axles made and it was $600.00 per side. oh well, better than walking home to get the trailer.

Peter Markowski at Glen Innes had a health issue and started selling machinery prior to relocating to Melbourne, but he came good and cancelled the move and is still taking on jobs in his retirement. He is very clever and not dear, the only trouble being that if he is to take on your job you have to listen to his stories and let him show how to do things. I am still learning so I see the extra 40 mins each visit as not wasted. I did hear a story about the Glen Innes pump job - can't remember how you came out.

The yarns would be a bonus.
When I was a young fella, starting my driving career an old bloke used to regale his experiences when he started driving, immediately post war.
The first time he saw a truck with a second powder puff mirror, on the passenger side, he thought the driver was a show off, with unnecessary bling.
The first time he saw blinkers, he thought they were lairy, but wouldn't last. (Seems he was right, where Audi and BMW are concerned).

 

mammoth wrote:

Peter Markowski at Glen Innes had a health issue and started selling machinery prior to relocating to Melbourne, but he came good and cancelled the move and is still taking on jobs in his retirement. He is very clever and not dear, the only trouble being that if he is to take on your job you have to listen to his stories and let him show how to do things. I am still learning so I see the extra 40 mins each visit as not wasted. I did hear a story about the Glen Innes pump job - can't remember how you came out.
 

Thanks for the info on Peter, tell him I hope to be up in his area early next year, I spent a good bit of time with him in the lead up to the job as well as the change over time and loved every minute of it, I am pleased that he is still with us. The council staff had a lot of faith in the diesel pump, I had none it failed we carried on and did what we had to do, par for the course move on to the next one

Dose anyone have contact details for Peter?

Zuffen wrote:

Dose anyone have contact details for Peter?

I probably would have, I will dig though 50 years of industrial electrical and trucks, shouldn't be to hard it would be in the computer age stuff, now I have right town I just have to come up with the right Year.